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I'm actually from the area and a car hit a black bear, sending it flying into oncoming traffic. It went through the windshield of the other car and decapitated the two people inside. Fucked up to say the least.

Did the windshield or the bear decapitate them? I'd have to guess windshield. But your comment really makes the bear look like the culprit.

I can't imagine any part of a bear's body is sharp and long enough to actually decapitate a human in a single pass. The teeth are definitely not long enough, and the claws are in the neighborhood of 3-4 inches.

Let's say your bear had unusually large claws. At least as long as an average human neck is wide. Their claws are made for slashing and digging, so it's hard to imagine one would be able to cut clean through a neck in a single pass. But let's say this one had unusually long and sharp claws.

So he's coming through the windshield, unnaturally long and sharp claws positioned in such a way that they take the head clean off a passenger in one swipe. How does it decapitate both people simultaneously? It would have to have its arms splayed out as it entered the car, both positioned at a very precise height and angle.

The claws would also have to be spread out so that only one contacts the neck edge-on. Obviously we can't have all the claws hitting the neck at the same time. That would undoubtedly cause serious harm, but I can't imagine it would provide enough localized force to cut clean through a neck. Ideally the full force of impact would be transferred through one claw's edge so as to apply maximum pressure to the point of incision.

I'm going to guess the windshield did it.

EDIT: After extensive peer review it was been decided that bears are fucking heavy and don't give a shit about your head.

Maybe he was flying with such force that the windshield didn't stop the bear from moving at speeds where it was still capable of taking off peoples heads?
The speed of the victims car also plays a role, if they were going a certain speed (lets say 45-55mph) and the bear impacted, it can have deadly outcomes.
Also, Decapitation is not always clean cut.
I'm not a scientist but it's just a guess.

The bear smashed through the SUV's front windshield and out the back window.

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So there was enough force for the bear to travel through the front windshield, kill 2 people, and go out the back window. More interestingly, the driver's boyfriend sitting beside her SURVIVED. Only the driver and passenger directly behind her were killed.

The way that windshields are designed I would have to say probably not the windshield, they expand and almost tear open. And if you push anything fast enough, even a bear, it should fly right through and rip off anything in its path due to its sheer mass. I like the research you did though.

Reminds me of the video of a mans wife being hit by a brick that feel out of a truck. You don't see the women, but the driver immediately starts screaming in pain and terror and stops the car. It's awful.

it's actually more of where the animal is hit. a moose, or deer is higher up, so it may suffer a broken leg or 2 but can generally limp it's way off the highway after a collision, a bear on the other hand is going to take the full impact of a collision in it's ribs which will kill it instantly.

I really want to know how fast you need to be going to send a 440 lb bear through a windshield and still have enough force to both kill two people and fly out the back window. Was it hit by a speeding truck??

hit by a sunfire, didn't send it through the windshield, just sent it up, the suv that it went through was traveling in the opposite direction. glass doesn't take that much force to break, and when you're going 100km/h and a 300lb bear hits your windshield, well yeah, wind shields were designed to protect against wind and bugs... not 300lb bears.

Us canadians are proud of our bears. So our national leaders had a secret pow-wow on how to make our animals better. It was determined that one would graft the wings of a cloned pterodactyl onto some bears. Only so we could share our greatest creature since the unicorn(theyre kept under wraps in the same building as the pterokodiak's).

During the "testing" stages the pair must have teamed up using their super-brains to escape the wretched place(they were only fed stale marshmallows and were forced to listen to madonna)

No, (this) replaces what the police spokesperson said in detail, but the editor wanted/needed to shorten it. He might have said "We don't see this kind of accident where wildlife is hit by one vehicle and is projected onto another vehicle often."